At-Tur 52:4
The Mount · Meccan · Juz 27 · Page 523
The Frequented House
وَٱلۡبَيۡتِ ٱلۡمَعۡمُورِ ٤
And the House frequented.
Translation: Marmaduke Pickthall
Meaning
And by the much-frequented House.
Insight
Elmalılı relates that, by one report, it is a house in the seventh heaven visited every day by seventy thousand angels who never return until the Resurrection.
Reflect
When you face the Ka‘bah, think of the worship in the heavens.
This short note is based on Elmalılı Hamdi Yazır’s Turkish commentary and has not yet been reviewed by a scholar.
Elmalılı’s commentary
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